Charles E Pirie

Charles E. Pirie was first listed in the Electoral Register at No. 9 in 1945.¹ For the next three years he was at No. 4,² and from 1951 to 1958 was again listed at No. 9, together with his wife Elizabeth. They then moved to 21 Pirniefield Gardens.³ Charles’ sister, Florence May Pirie, was married to John G. G. Baillie, proprietor of No. 9.

Charles Edward Pirie was born in Edinburgh on 08 August 1909, son of William Pirie and his wife Finas Sophia Waters. His father, a Company Sergeant Major in the Seaforth Highlanders was killed in action in 1915.⁴ During the 1930s, Charles lived with his widowed mother and siblings at 30 Cumberland Street. Finas Sophia Pirie died there on 21 June 1957.⁵ Charles E. Pirie served in the Royal Engineers during the second world war.⁶ He died in Edinburgh in 1985.⁷

Charles E. Pirie married Elizabeth McClelland at Halifax, Yorkshire in 1941.⁸ She was listed in the Electoral Register at No. 9 Malta Terrace between 1951 and 1958.

1. Electoral register 1945.
2. Electoral registers 1946, 1947 and 1948.
3. Electoral register 1959.
4. WWI Pension Record Cards and Ledgers. Transcription. 25 September 1915. PIRIE, William. 152/0741/Pir-Pla. Western Front Association. Ancestry collection ‘UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923.’ https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 25 September 2023.
5. Death announcements. Edinburgh Evening News. 22 June 1957. PIRIE, Finas Sophia. p. 10, col. 8. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 25 September 2023.
6. Birth announcements. Edinburgh Evening News. 23 January 1943. PIRIE, Charles. p. 6, col. 6. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 26 September 2023.
7. Deaths index (SR) Scotland. Edinburgh 1985. PIRIE, Charles Edward. 738/ 662. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 24 September 2023.
8. Marriages index (CR) England. Halifax, Yorkshire. Q3, 1941. McCLELLAND, Elizabeth and PIRIE, Charles E. vol. 9a, p. 1500. Ancestry collection ‘England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005.’ https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 25 September 2023.